# Military practices (spoilers for Hair, strangely enough)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/military-practices-spoilers-for-hair-strangely-enough/203366>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 23, 2003, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/military-practices-spoilers-for-hair-strangely-enough/203366 "2003-09-23T18:12:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2003, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/military-practices-spoilers-for-hair-strangely-enough/203366/21 "2003-09-25T19:51:27Z")

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Saw the movie many years ago and never saw the play. My understanding is that the movie fit a plot around the songs and that the play was more of a stream of consciousness thing without a plot.

Haj

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**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/military-practices-spoilers-for-hair-strangely-enough/203366/22 "2003-09-25T20:02:59Z")

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> The movie … the whole movie.

And this dump in the middle of the thread addressed the factual question of the OP in what way exactly?

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**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/military-practices-spoilers-for-hair-strangely-enough/203366/23 "2003-09-25T22:26:57Z")

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The _movie_ was originally a play and it was a _METAPHOR_ It had no need to historicly acurate it was about a pregnant teenage and her clueless boyfriend. But then why am I telling you guys about clueless 😉

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**Author:** ![Sinungaling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Sinungaling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinungaling)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/military-practices-spoilers-for-hair-strangely-enough/203366/24 "2003-09-26T04:20:52Z")

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Oh, so the movie’s totally different from the play.

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